Or how oppressive was the "civilized" British government? The civilized government we had just waged a bloody war with in order to obtain a life with what we today consider to be basic rights.
How eager would those school kids be to live today under the British rules as they were then, without the right to bear arms? This ATF'er personal views make him sound like a willing PR man for such a government.
The deep state prefers a citizenry that shuts up and doesn’t fight back.